More World Bank & Roving Bugs

So it has come to my attention that since the discussion of roving bugs first surfaced on the internet, many people have blogged about it.

So many people have mentioned this issue in fact that it has generated a sort of hysteria about the issue.Â The generation of such hysteria has obviously spurred a coalition of naysayers.Â I just wanted to reaffirm to people that the technology is obviously possible.Â Some articles go as far as to claim that the roving bug could be activated even when the phone was switched off.Â That might be a little hyperbolic.

The other thing is that I was having a conversation with my dad the other day and he made a good anecdotal point about why free market capitalism pisses people off who live within poor market economies, I mean, besides the obvious reasons.Â He pointed out what happened when a company from the UAE tried to buy American ports. It wasn’t very pretty.

I was saying in the last post that many countries blame their financial problems on the sharky nature of the world bank which can have the (purposeful or accidental) effect of destabilizing an economy, and/or supporting people financially who really don’t need to be in charge.Â Argentina is one of the countries that really hates the organization.Â Read and educate yourself.

The image of the Argentinian World Bank protest originates from this article.